Indonesia

Bob Lowry asks where do the political preferences of the police and the military lie?

If a presidential candidate appears to punch someone, and no one talks about it, did it ever happen?

John Roosa explains how both Prabowo and Jokowi are advertising themselves as the legatees of Indonesia’s first President, Sukarno.

In a week dominated by news of Jusuf Kalla, here's four bits of news about the Indonesian elections that you may have missed...

There are some real ideological differences between the two presidential campaigns in 2014.

When standing for Indonesia's obscure second chamber of parliament, it helps to have a name beginning with A.

Indonesia's Constitutional Court is flooded with hundreds of challenges to the elections

Peter Carey’s ensnarement in the Prabowo campaign is a warning for us all, says Ed Aspinall. *Updated with added response from Peter Carey.

In post-conflict Timor-Leste, Prabowo’s candidacy is met with silence, not outrage, write Maj Nygaard-Christensen and Angie Bexley.

Some new polling on the state of the Indonesian presidential race.

Indonesia's next president must address the problem of rising religious intolerance, says Andreas Harsono

The key to a good conspiracy theory is elegant simplicity. This one doesn't make the grade.

On the eve of the presidential nominations, Usman Hamid remembers the human rights records of the two likely presidential candidates.

Oxford historian Peter Carey responds to allegations of appearing in Prabowo campaign material.

Peter Carey argues that history can be a slippery claim to power

It's what the presidential candidates are not talking about that worries Fitrian Ardiansyah.

Indonesia's first May Day holiday in decades was less about labour and more about presidential politics, write Teri Caraway and Michele Ford.

In Indonesia, there's more to a horse and dagger than would seem, writes Yogi Setya Permana.

On-camera meltdowns can be a good way for Indonesian politicians to project a reformist image and win some free publicity.

Indonesia's 2014 election has been lauded as generally free and fair, but not in Aceh.

Hana Satriyo asks what's in store for the female winners and losers of the 2014 election?

In Indonesia, patriarchal media representations restricts coverage of quality female candidates, writes Evi Eliyanah.

Did the Internet predict the Indonesian election results, asks Ross Tapsell.

Dirk Tomsa wonders if hope triumphed political sense in his reading of Indonesia's 2014 election polls.